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The ninth and final chapter is up! A letter, an ending, another beginning.
Reblogged chiropteracupola
“I very proudly entered the forestry school as an 18-year-old and telling them that the reason that I wanted to study botany was because I wanted to know why asters and goldenrod looked so beautiful together. These are these amazing displays of this bright, chrome yellow and deep purple of New England aster, and they look stunning together. And the two plants so often intermingle rather than living apart from one another, and I wanted to know why that was. I thought that surely in the order and the harmony of the universe, there would be an explanation for why they looked so beautiful together. And I was told that that was not science, that if I was interested in beauty, I should go to art school. Which was really demoralizing as a freshman, but I came to understand that question wasn’t going to be answered by science, that science, as a way of knowing, explicitly sets aside our emotions, our aesthetic reactions to things. We have to analyze them as if they were just pure material, and not matter and spirit together. And, yes, as it turns out, there’s a very good biophysical explanation for why those plants grow together, so it’s a matter of aesthetics and it’s a matter of ecology. Those complimentary colors of purple and gold together, being opposites on the color wheel, they’re so vivid, they actually attract far more pollinators than if those two grew apart from one another. So each of those plants benefits by combining its beauty with the beauty of the other. And that’s a question that science can address, certainly, as well as artists. And I just think that “Why is the world so beautiful?” is a question that we all ought to be embracing.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer, “The Intelligence of Plants”, from the podcast On Being with Krista Tippett (via peatbogbodyhasmoved)
Reblogged the-devils-blobfish
My favorite rejected New Yorker submission
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Everyone LOVES talking about how a Dorito or EDM/Dubstep would kill a Medieval peasant.
LAME! Old news. We've been Over This.
Some weaver named Gerdrut in a fucking 14th c. Silesian duchy has context for crunchy carbs, cheese, and spices.
Dubstep? EDM? Do you think that would kill Anchier the Fishmonger? HAHAHAHA. My man would simply bust a move.
So what would cause a 13th c. European to flip their shit? It's not furry porn, it's not monster energy, and it's not skibidy fucking toilet. For your contemplation...
The Rubber Band:
Once I whip this baby out, Ulrich's not gonna know what to do with himself.
He's never seen RUBBER. He doesn't know elasticity like this. This ain't your Grandma's smocked shirt; this is the combined fruits of the Columbian exchange and vulcanisation.
Reblogged wildwood-faun
Skogskontraster.
Reblogged sailorpants
Howdy gang! This is terrifying for me to do because I'd generally rather suffer in silence than ask for help, but I'm trying to make a big move happen and I simply cannot do it alone.
For the folks that don't know me, I'm Charlie! I'm a trans man, born and raised in Texas. The plan for a long time has been to get out of here to move in with my wonderful partner of many, many years, @ecthar, but the logistics have never quite worked out and money has always been impossibly tight. With the recent election, though, the mindset has shifted from it'll happen when it happens to trying to make it happen with some sort of urgency. The goal is to have me out of the state by mid-2025, but that goal simply cannot be reached without a lot of help.
All funds raised will go toward the move itself--getting myself, my things, and my dog across the country--and helping me to keep afloat as I start my life over in a new place. That includes maintaining my mental health treatment as I seek to replace the benefits I'll lose when I leave my current job, continuing gender affirming care, and money to cover general expenses and cost of living while I find new employment.
Every read, share, and donation is endlessly appreciated <3
Reblogged butcharium
Gender Troubles: The Butches (watch it for free until March 29th)
Reblogged sailorpants
ppl will post butch positivity with like 5 allusions to transmasculitity (binding, t, top surgery, etc) and 0 mentions of transfem butches
i love you butches on estrogen! i love you butches who feel caught between expressing yourself as a woman and as a butch because of transmisogyny! i love you butches who want/have bottom surgery! i love you butches who don’t! i love you butches who feel like butch is your gender and i love you butches who feel like butch is your sexuality!
i love you transfem butches! i love you trans women butches! i love you butches!
Reblogged the-devils-blobfish
lets hope the next male epidemic is "washing hands after using the bathroom"
Reblogged opalescent-apples
why don't you go "lay siege" to some bitches?
I screamed this from the castle walls and I think I heard one of the enemy footmen start crying. It was kinda sad.
I DIDN'T!!!! I STOOD TALL AND MARCHED WITH MY COMMANDER BRAVELY!!!!!!!!!!!!
We literally saw you weep at the thought of a comely maiden
well she looked very pretty dropping boiling oil on us
please tell her i said that
Reblogged subsequentibis
I cannot relate to people who dislike female characters for “being manipulative.” She’s literally creative problem solving before your eyes. She’s literally just using her words. Maybe the other blorbos should be less pawn-like for her beautiful hands hmm
Reblogged sanguinarysanguinity
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry
"The Peace of Wild Things" read by the author
Reblogged aurpiment
This information and the Know Your Rights training pisses off First Felon.
Kindly share WIDELY and let's keep on pissin' this asshole off.
Reblogged rowzien
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN dir. Stanley Donen + Gene Kelly
genekellys
BONUS:
reblog for good luck!!